Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting - October 25-30, 2015

Polymers and Self Assembly: From Biology to Nanomaterials Program

Session II

Louise Serpell, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, Chair

13:30 – 14:00

Edward Egelman, University of Virginia, USA Cryo-EM of Protein Polymers at Near- Atomic Resolution Yields New Insights

14:00 – 14:30

Richard Garratt, Univesrity of Sao Paulo, Brazil How to Build a Septin Filament

14:30 – 15:00

Robert Robinson, Institute for Molecular & Cell Biology, Singapore The Varied Geometries of ParM Cytomotive Filaments in Bacterial Plasmid Segregation Kildare Miranda, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Asymmetry of Polyphosphates Polymers in Ion-rich Organelles*

15:00 – 15:15

15:15 – 15:45

Coffee Break

Mar da Barra

15:45 – 17:45

Poster Sessions I

18:00 – 20:00

Dinner on own

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:00 – 17:00 Registration/Information Foyer Mar da Barra Session III Vince Conticello, Emory University, USA, Chair 9:00 – 9:30 Anna Rising, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Spider Silk Assembly is Mediated by a Lock and Trigger Mechanism 9:30 – 9:45 Jan Johannson, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Development of Recombinant Spider Silk Proteins with Tunable Assembly Properties for Biomimetic Spinning* 9:45 – 10:15 Thomas Scheibel, University of Bayreuth, Germany Structural Proteins: Self- Assembling Biopolymers for Various Applications 10:15 – 10:30 Guillaume Lamour, University of British Columbia, Canada Nanomechanics of Amyloid-like Polymers Made of Self-assembled Mouse Prion Proteins* 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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